Let us look at just one – the federal government’s multi-department, multitudinous-program effort to vacuum up as much of our data as possible. And let us consider the news that broke just this past week – and make a determination of just how phony this scandal is.

“These (search) programs are…(designed so that) all an analyst has to do is enter an email address or an IP address, and it does two things. It searches that database and lets them listen to the calls or read the emails of everything that the NSA has stored, or look at the browsing histories or Google search terms that you’ve entered, and it also alerts them to any further activity that people connected to that email address or that IP address do in the future.”

Is that enough for you?

It certainly isn’t for the Leviathan. The government is tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading U.S. Internet companies, extracting audio and video chats, photographs, e-mails, documents, and connection logs. And this week we learned:

“The U.S. government has demanded that major Internet companies divulge users’ stored passwords, according to two industry sources familiar with these orders, which represent an escalation in surveillance techniques that has not previously been disclosed.”

“But ask (top NSA official Harvey Davis) why the facility is so big and what’s inside, and he is less forthcoming. ‘I think we’re crossing into content. It’s big because it’s required to be big’…“(T)he systems inside will warehouse…millions of Americans’ phone logs for five years….”

With all of this Administration data grabbing going on – is it any surprise that some Obama allies are beginning to follow suit? As we know – unions love President Obama and his Democrats. The Communications Workers of America (CWA) union really loves Democrats – nearly $6 million in 2012 political contributions, nearly all to Donkeys and their ilk. And the CWA has been taking data grab notes.

The CWA was just recently caught demanding via a recorded message that it’s Local 1126 provide the parent with copies of all trouble tickets and install orders involving Voice Link – Verizon’s Internet Protocol (IP) phone system. Why? Because the old-school, dilapidated land-line phone system work is unionized work – and the cutting-edge IP system work is not. So the CWA is illegally stealing and collecting customers’ personal data in an effort to prop up their dinosaur gigs.